NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement in Alaska regularly sees illegal activity related to the transferring and selling of recreational caught fish in other states.
Overall the harbor seal population in Alaskan waters is fairly healthy. But there are some places like the western Aleutian Islands, where harbor seal populations have declined and scientists still don’t know why.
The southeastern Bering Sea is an enormously productive ecosystem. It produces over 40% of the nationâs total annual fish catch. The pollock fishery operates here -- one of the nationâs most important commercial fisheries in both annual yield and valu
